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Assembly Bill A8523

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring sex offenders to register authorized internet entities that such offender uses

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2019-A8523 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6645
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§168-b & 168-f, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S5523
2023-2024: S2036

2019-A8523 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires sex offenders to register authorized internet entities that such offender uses, including social media websites.

2019-A8523 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8523
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              August 7, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. STEC -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to requiring sex  offen-
   ders to register authorized internet entities that such offender uses
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1  of  section  168-b  of  the
 correction law, as amended by chapter 67 of the laws of 2008, is amended
 to read as follows:
   (a)  The  sex  offender's  name, all aliases used, date of birth, sex,
 race, height, weight, eye color, driver's license number,  home  address
 and/or  expected  place of domicile, any internet accounts with internet
 access providers belonging to such  offender,  ANY  AUTHORIZED  INTERNET
 ENTITIES  THAT  SUCH  OFFENDER  USES  and internet identifiers that such
 offender uses.
   § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 168-f of the correction law, as  amended
 by chapter 67 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
   4. Any sex offender shall register with the division no later than ten
 calendar days after any change of address, internet accounts with inter-
 net  access  providers  belonging to such offender, internet identifiers
 that such offender uses, AUTHORIZED INTERNET ENTITIES THAT SUCH OFFENDER
 USES, or his or her status  of  enrollment,  attendance,  employment  or
 residence  at any institution of higher education. A fee of ten dollars,
 as authorized by subdivision eight of section one hundred  sixty-eight-b
 of  this  article, shall be submitted by the sex offender each time such
 offender registers any change of address or any change  of  his  or  her
 status  of enrollment, attendance, employment or residence at any insti-
 tution of higher education.  Any  failure  or  omission  to  submit  the
 required  fee  shall  not  affect  the acceptance by the division of the
 change of address or change of status.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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